Obama, Putin, and Anxiety About Greece All Head to Cabo!

Twenty heads of state have gathered in Los Cabos, Mexico, for the G-20 confab.

On the conversational agenda: first and foremost, how do you solve a problem like the Euro? (Start by sighing with relief that Greece appears to be sticking with the currency.) According to Reuters: “G20 countries want to hear whether Europe is moving toward adopting a firm roadmap with a timetable for achieving the huge leap of financial, fiscal and political union in order to strengthen the resiliency of monetary union—a path that EU leaders as yet have been unready to take ahead of their summit at the end of June.” This sounds fair. How many times have you spent way too much money in Europe because you couldn’t find a map?

Second: Syria. Barack Obama and Russian president Vladimir Putin are expected to coolly shoot each other withering glances at any mention of the war-torn Middle Eastern nation. Russia, an ally of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, has “opposed Western intervention and, by some accounts, continues to arm the forces of” the Syrian leader, The New York Times reports. Obama, a father and a pet owner, is quite adept at silently expressing his displeasure. Putin is also consistently terrifying.